Above: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, colloquially known as ‘AOC’, is a self-identified democratic socialist and rising star in the Democrat Party. She recently announced an extremely ambitious, and arguably highly unrealistic plan, ‘The Green New Deal’ which promises to make the United States carbon-neutral in 11 years (Credit: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images/New York Magazine). Previously, I wrote...
The following is part one of a two-part essay on the reasons for the growth of Socialism in 2010s America. Above: Residents protest evictions in San Francisco, where Sillicon Valley’s gentrification has resulted in skyrocketing housing costs and growing homelessness (credit: Zelda Bronstein, The Nation/Ted Gullicksen, Antievictionmappingproject.net). One out of three millennials in Donald Trump’s America...
Unlike the other Democratic presidential candidates, Bernie Sanders describes himself as a Democratic Socialist. True to the word, he is campaigning on a radical, massive expansion of government, which includes, among other proposals, the creation of a single-payer healthcare system, free tuition at public universities, and an expansion of Social Security. Because he comes off as...
Drum roll, please. 1. Hillary Clinton: $3,950 2. Bernie Sanders: $2,210 3. Rand Paul: $705 These are the three candidates to whom Cornell professors, administrators, grad students, and undergraduate students have donated. Note that this is publicly available data from the Federal Election Commission, and doesn’t include donations that might have been made to political...
Liberty University might be the last place you would think Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders (I-VT) would visit on his quest to the White House. But keeping in spirit of an election with already many surprises, the socialist career politician did stump at one of the nation’s most conservative and Christian campuses for a half...